Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

Civilized life exacts its toll.